EDUCATION
1996
Rutgers University, New Jersey, MFA
1995 & 1990
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, Diplomas
1992
McGill University, Montreal, BA
1983
University of Victoria, British Columbia, BFA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
side effect, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2008-09
jalousie, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
do you know what: A Survey 1990-2008, Justina M. Barnicke at the University of Toronto; Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph; and Cambridge Galleries, Queen’s Square, ON
2007
jalousie, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
negative spaces, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
2003
plot, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002
bottom feeder, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
1999
work, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998
Galerie Clark, Montréal, QC
stock, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
1997
fountain, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON
1996
still life, Paul Petro, Toronto, ON
1994
unentitled, YYZ, Toronto, ON
1993
public works, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1992
re-possession, Galerie Clark, Montreal, QC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Beyond/In Western New York, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009
Nothing to Declare: Recent Sculpture from Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2008
Arena, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
ABC With Love, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
2007
Pulp, Open Space, Victoria, BC
Fun House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Sculpture Group Show, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2005
Inaugural Group Show, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2004
Constructa, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
Constructive Folly, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, ON
2003
Recycle, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2002
New Modular, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, ON
Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2001
Promises, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Forever, Embassy of Canada, Beijing
First Light, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
Objets de Convoitise, Galerie 101, Ottawa, ON
2000
Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
Minutia, SECCA, North Carolina
Climbing the Walls, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999
New Urban Sculpture, New York Public Art Fund Commission
Spatial Interest, Workspace, New York
Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
Something, Kunstverein Hannover
I'm the Boss of Myself, Sara Meltzer, New York
1997
Wrong Place, Right Time, Double Pleasure, New York
Mannequins, Villa Minimo, Hannover
Face Value, PS 122, New York
Vague Pop Part One, View Room, New York
PUBLIC ART
2011
Rubber Band Project, Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON (Forthcoming)
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
McCarthy-Tétrault, Toronto, ON
Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP., Toronto, ON
Goodmans LLP, Toronto, ON
Art Metropole Archive, National Gallery of Canada
Canada Council Art Bank
Private Collections Canada, US, China, Germany
SELECTED AWARDS
2007 Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council
2006 Canada Council, Paris Studio
2002 Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council
2001 Canada Council Travel Grant
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1999 Canada Council
1997 Canada Council
1996 Toronto Arts Awards, Protégé Award (conferred by Tom Dean)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Terrence Dick, “What You See is What You Don’t Get: The Art of James Carl,” Border Crossings, Issue No. 110, pp. 56-65
Pamela Meredith, “James Carl,” Canadian Art, Vol. 26 No. 2 p. 103
Dan Adler, “Review: James Carl at Diaz Contemporary,” Artforum, February 2009, p. 202
Sarah Milroy, “Getting under the skin of things,” Globe and Mail (Toronto), 10.01.09, p. R6
2008
David Balzer, “Eye Candy: jalousie and do you know what,” Eye Weekly (Toronto), 04.12.08
Murray Whyte, “Turning Trash into Treasure,” Toronto Star, 27.11.08, p. E3
2005
Robin Peck, “Rock Paper Scissors,” C Magazine, (Toronto), 05.05
2004
Sara Milroy, “Conceptual Art with your Pradas?” Globe and Mail (Toronto), 04.02.04, p. A3
Catherine Osborne, “Come Up to My Room,” National Post, 14.02.04
2002
Sarah Milroy, "Out of the Ordinary," Globe and Mail, 03.12.02, p. R5
Jessica Bradley, "Provisional Worlds," Exhibition Catalog, Art Gallery of Ontario, 10.02
Sarah Milroy, "Thoroughly Modern Art," Globe and Mail, 25.09.02, p. R5
Betty Ann Jordan, "Message in a Bottle," Toronto Life, 10.02, p. 54
Ann Dean, "Politics and Romance," C Magazine, #73, Spring 2002, p.23
2001
Jessica Bradley, “On James Carl…” Canadian Art, Winter 2001, p. 70
Ruth Dusseault, “Winston-Salem,” Art Papers, 05.01, p.40
Jill Conner, “Bellevue, Washington,” Art Papers, 05.01, p. 54
Gillian McKay, “the Best of Canadian Sculpture,” Globe And Mail, 03.11.01, p. V5
Bryne McLaughlin, "Toronto Sculpture Garden," Canadian Art, Summer 2001
Doug Kim, "Museum premiers with light, passion," Seattle Times/Post, 07.01.01, p. F1
Ron Glowen, "Luminous at the Bellevue Art Museum," Artweek, 28.03.01
Aline Bégin, "Ou Convoitise et Commerce se Rencontrent," Le Droit, 21.04.01, p. A46
2000
Glen Helfand, “Minimal Pop,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, 03.05.00, p. 103
Robert Mahoney, “New Urban Sculpture,” Time Out New York, 31.10.00, p. 56
Roberta Smith, "Stretching Definitions of Outdoor Sculpture," New York Times, 28.7.00, p. B25
Gary Michael Dault, "Gallery Going," Globe and Mail (Toronto), 22.7.00, p. R10
1999
Carol Vogel, "Inside Art," New York Times, 15.10.99, p. B32
New Yorker, "Goings on About Town," 13.9.99
John Grande, "James Carl," Sculpture, (Chicago), Apr. 99, pp. 18-25
1998
Marcus Miller, "Essential Items," Mirror (Montreal) 8.10.98, p. 31
1997
Christopher Hume, "A Panoramic View...," The Toronto Star, 5.6.97, p. G12
Gillian MacKay, "Sculptural Surrogates...," Globe and Mail (Toronto) 31.5.97, p. C13
Barbara Fischer, "fountain," Toronto Sculpture Garden catalog essay
Blake Gopnick, "James Carl's Corrugated Craft," The Globe (Toronto), 15.2.97, p. C4
1996
John Grande, "Exhibition Review," Atlanta Art Papers, 11.96
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